DURING the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar, “reading and knowing the Arabic language became a vice, fiqh, tafseer ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published Wednesday on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and ...

A rare Punjabi translation of Quran, created in 1911 through efforts of a Sikh and two Hindus, resurfaced in Punjab after 100 ...

(RNS) — Behind the inauguration festivities for a temple in India lurks a Hindu nationalist desire to eradicate Muslims. (RNS) — On Jan. 22, hundreds of thousands of Hindus in India will consecrate ...

GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...

The importance of religion to tourism in India is well known. India is now investing in marketing and tourism infrastructure - think technology, hotels and other amenities – to attract more visitors.

Federation of Indian-American Christian Organizations in North America documented 1,570 attacks on Christians in 2023, up from its previous report of 1,198 in 2022. Christians devotees take part in a ...

This op-ed argues India's Freedom of Religion acts (anti-conversion laws) are unconstitutional tools that target minorities, ...

(RNS) — In 1972, the course of the Vietnam war was changed by the horrifying photo of a naked girl burned in a napalm attack. Searing Americans’ collective conscience, the picture of 9-year-old Phan ...